::Forecast was for snow...::

...but it rained instead!
Today is Martin Luther King Jr Day, and I have the day off. No big plans, and since the forecast had called for snow, I thought it would ba good day to stay home and "get things done". That's what I was doing when I heard pounding on my my door. Now usually I don't answer the door at my apartment unless I'm expecting someone, or I sense an urgency. The pounding was urgent and the yelling from the other side of the door indicated the unit below me was flooding, so I decided I better open the door. After I got dressed real quick (hey, it was my day off and I hadn't gotten that far!) that is. I hadn't been to the laundry area since I'd started the machine but I soon noticed the floor was now a small lake. Yikes! I grabbed towels and threw them down, opened up the door, and the maintenace guys were in super fast. In no time, then had the shopvac in and sucking water, and I rushed downstairs to see what was going on in the unit below. Like I said--it rained. It was like a shower in their place just below my washer area. There were firemen there. No fire, but in my neighbor's panic, she called them just in case. My apartment claims it's a faulty part (water level regulator?) to my washing machine--I'm getting a new machine in 2 days!--and that it is not my fault. I really hope not--I feel bad enough as it is! Really no damaged to my place--just the need to run this blower thing for 24 hours to dry my carpet (not very quiet!), but they have a mess below. I helped move some things, but not quite sure how else to help out.
Usually I run my washer at night--I'm glad this was during the day instead so people didn't have to get up and come help then.
Lost my momentum--haven't done much since (except scrapbook!)

::Collection::

(Day 7) I was in a second circle journal group, and I asked the ladies to do a layout telling me about what they collect. Here's a collection of mine...

::Mama Said...::

(Day 6) This is one of the circle journal pages I enjoyed doing the most. Stacy had the theme of "Mama said..." and we were tell about a piece of advice we've heard from our mothers. What I did was take all the little things I heard her say (not necessarily advice) time and again growing up and collect them on to the one page. We both got a good chuckle out of this one... (Love you, Mom!)

::Simple Pleasures::

(Day 5) Jen asked us to share our simple pleasures--here's a small list of some I have...

::What Is Magic::

(Day 4) Lauren asked each of us in our circle journal group to do a scrapbook page of what is magic to us--here is my response...

(Let me know if the print in the layout is too small to read, and I can put the text here instead)

::My Earliest Memory::

(Day 3) This is the page I made for my own topic--I asked everyone to share their earliest memory.

::Home::

(Day 2) This is the scrapbook page I did for Lisa--her theme was "Home". Others in the group did their layout featuring their house, or family members that made them feel at home. I decided to say my home is one of my favorite places--Colorado....

::What Makes Me Laugh::

(Day 1) Last year, I was part of a circle journal--a group of scrapbookers that each chose a topic, and in turn, each person in our group made a scrapbook page to fit that person's topic, and then gave it to her. In the end, we had made and received twelve pages each. I was looking through some of my files, and came across the pages I made for the other ladies in the group--since most of them give a little tidbit of insight about me, I thought I'd share some on my blog. This is the page I made for Gina--her topic was "Things That Make You Laugh", and although there are numerous things that make me chuckle, this is the one I chose. Thanks for looking!